Red Hat Confidential Compute Attestation Checkpoint Restore permission

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A vulnerability classified as very critical was found in Red Hat Confidential Compute Attestation, Enterprise Linux and OpenShift Container Platform. This affects an unknown function of the component Checkpoint Restore. Such manipulation leads to permission. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-92574. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Confidential Compute Attestation, Enterprise Linux and OpenShift Container Platform (version unknown). It has been rated as very critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component Checkpoint Restore. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-275. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A vulnerability in CRI-O checkpoint restore allows a user who can create a pod from a malicious checkpointed container to bypass the destination Kubernetes security context. The restored process may retain credentials, Linux capabilities, no_new_privs, and seccomp state from the checkpoint instead of enforcing the destination configuration. This can allow execution with elevated privileges across the container security boundary. Affected upstream supported versions are CRI-O 1.34 and later. Downstream Red Hat products are affected from OCP 4.17 onward. Fixes have been applied to supported branches but are not yet released. Exploitation requires permission to create a pod from a malicious checkpoint image and checkpoint restore functionality to be available.

The advisory is available at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-92574 since 09/16/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploitation needs additional levels of successful authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/21/2026). This vulnerability is assigned to T1222 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Operating System

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• Red Hat

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• Confidential Compute Attestation
• Enterprise Linux
• OpenShift Container Platform

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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